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by Steve Brewer (Author)
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“Every region claims its own resident jester-in-crime. Steve Brewer owns the Southwest. Bullets is a fast, fun, and funny read. Read it.” —Pete Hautman, author of Sweetblood and Doohickey -- Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Brewer has created a passel of unique and hilarious characters and thrown them into a page-turning plot that had me laughing out loud despite a hail of bullets."-Chicago Sun-Times

"Think of Hunter S. Thompson meeting James M. Cain meeting . . . James Ellroy to get some sense of what this book is like."-Mystery News

"With characters you love to hate and hate to love, readers will be cheering for the killer-for-hire and the down-on-his-luck former cop who is chasing her."-Albuquerque Journal

When a contract killer bumps off a high roller in a Las Vegas casino, a tangle of romance, gambling, and gunplay follows. The killer, Lily Marsden, is a mysterious and cold woman who is a true professional. But soon, the casino owner, his henchmen, and the victim's two -brothers are on Lily's trail.

Former Chicago cop Joe Riley is pursuing Lily, too. She cost him his job as a homicide investigator when suspicion of a bookie's murder fell on him. Joe is certain Lily killed the bookie, and he's tracked her across the country to Vegas.

Throw in some local cops, a playboy, a new widow, a rug merchant, a harridan, and a couple of idiot gamblers named Delbert and Mookie, and the mixture soon boils with intrigue and murder. Add a dash of romance as a strange magnetism develops between Lily and Joe, dust the whole concoction with Steve Brewer's trademark humor, and you end up with Bullets-a crime novel you won't soon forget.

Steve Brewer spent 22 years in the newspaper business before turning to fiction full-time in 1997. A weekly humor column he writes for the Albuquerque Tribune is distributed nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. He lives in Redding, California with his wife, two sons and a dog named Elvis.



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  • Paperback: 252 pages
  • Publisher: Speck Press (December 1, 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 097257767X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0972577670
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,880,638 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Lighthearted and funny story about a female assassin, June 26, 2004
By David Montgomery "Book Critic" (davidjmontgomery.com) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bullets (Hardcover)
You wouldn't expect a book about a female assassin who leaves more bodies in her wake than Typhoid Mary to be lighthearted and funny, but that's the perfect way to describe Steve Brewer's Bullets.

Lily Marsden is one cold woman, but she's not without charm, especially in the eyes of Joe Riley, a former Chicago cop determined to track her down and bring her to justice.

Brewer has created a passel of unique and hilarious characters and thrown them into a page-turning plot that had me laughing out loud despite a hail of bullets.

Reviewed by David Montgomery, Chicago Sun-Times

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Crime Can Be Funny!, July 13, 2005
By Kevin Tipple (Plano, Texas) - See all my reviews
  
This review is from: Bullets (Hardcover)
Lily Marsden is very good at what she does. She has managed to kill and kill again and her signature style is to leave no clues or trace of her presence. Her clients pay well for her work but she is starting to get tired of the hunt and killing. Her latest target, Max Vernon, gave her no problems and she was happy to leave him dead in his room at the Tropical Bay in Las Vegas.

But Max had two brothers, Hi and Norm. Two brothers with anger and resources who aren't going to wait for the clueless cops to figure it out. They have a very good idea why Max was taken out and plan to start rolling up Vegas for the name of the shooter. They aren't waiting and neither is Ken Staley, the owner of the Tropical Bay, who already had enough problems to deal with. He doesn't think the cops can find the killer either and he knows he can't have the publicity of a trial if the cops do find her. Lily made a mistake this time and both the brothers and Staley quickly know who she is and begin hunting her.

While the brothers and Ken want her dead, former officer Joe Wiley knows the execution of Max Vernon to be her work and needs her alive. The Vegas cops aren't interested in his help so his long running solo chase of her continues. She is the key to his clearing his severally damaged reputation in Chicago. He has no intention of backing off and his efforts are constantly interfered with by two crazy gamblers who don't take losing well and don't know when to quit in anything.

This novel quickly becomes a fast fun read as the point of view constantly shifts through a large ensemble cast of characters. Many of the characters are off the wall funny, while others manage to get off an occasionally funny line or two to break up the serious sections of the book. There is a certain inevitability to the read as it becomes clear that everything and everyone will collide in such a way at the end to border on the absurd.

Despite all the humor, the core mystery is complicated and rather intense. The book fully engages the reader and keeps one steadily turning the pages. While occasional bordering on the madcap, the tone overall is relatively serious and a novel well worth reading and enjoying.

Kevin R. Tipple (c) 2005
(43 and still a real person)
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3.0 out of 5 stars A madcap farce, July 19, 2005
By Colin P. Lindsey (Manchester, NH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bullets (Hardcover)
Mr. Brewer is not trying to write literature in this novel, nor indeed anything the slightest bit serious. He has instead given free reign to his comic impulses to create a fun, light, madcap farce involving an assassination in Las Vegas, and the crazy, off-kilter, and wacky people that get swept up into the action. This is meant as pure comedy, and reminds me of those 1950 TV sit-coms like Gomer Pyle in its feel and mood. It's a simple light-hearted farce and good for filling in a few moments, but this is not going to be one you remember for the rest of your life. After reading it I can't say I really thought that much of it; the book is short and the chapters even shorter (most going for two or three pages only). If you in the mood something lighter than helium and crammed with a surplus of comic relief than this will fit your bill......but it's hard to create a good book when all the cast are comic relief and there is no foil for them. This is pure Bridget does Assasination.
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